QUERY: HAYMARKET TOKEN MARKING PUZZLE
The E-Sylum (8/10/2013)
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Web site visitor Seth B. ( RedNBlack77@yahoo.com ) writes:
I was researching the Chicago Haymarket Riot tokens, as found on your site, because I used to own one. I am a labor history buff and purchased it off eBay years ago. I used to carry it with me in my pocket as a charm of sorts and lost it while visiting friends in Chicago.
The funny thing is that I believe that my particular token ended up at the Chicago Historical Society, as the one I had had a strange mark on one side that looked like "12a" (as pictured here).
Anyway, I would love to know what it may be worth and how to get another one. Your site has been the only other online resource, other than the Chicago Historical Society, that I have come across to know of these tokens. Any help or information you could offer would be fantastic. Many thanks.
To visit the Chicago Historical Society database entry, see: Souvenir token of the Haymarket Square Riot. -- Front view (www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/visuals/artifact/011A11A.htm)
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: BOMB BLAST NUMISMATIC SOUVENIRS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n17a07.html)